{"id":48670,"date":"2019-11-02T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48670"},"modified":"2019-11-02T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T04:30:28","slug":"joint-turkey-russia-patrols-start-in-ne-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48670","title":{"rendered":"Joint Turkey-Russia Patrols Start In NE Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Nov 2 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkish and Russian troops launched their first joint patrol in northeastern Syria, as reconnaissance of the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the region, as part of a deal that halted a Turkish offensive in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;First Turkish-Russian joint patrols with the ground and air units are underway, east of Ad Darbasiyah in northeastern Syria, as agreed between Turkish and Russian presidents in Sochi on Oct 22,&#8221; the Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patrols are part of a memorandum between Ankara and Moscow to remove fighters of the Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG) 30 km from the Turkish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. reached a deal with Turkey on Oct 17, imposing a five-day cease-fire to allow the Kurdish forces to pull back from the planned &#8220;safe zone&#8221; that Turkey wants to create in northern Syria to ensure its border security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Oct 22, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a meeting in Sochi, Russia, agreeing on the pullout of the YPG fighters to 30 km south of Turkey&#8217;s border, within 150 hours and the launch of joint patrols between Turkish and Russian soldiers, 10 km from the Turkish border, in an agreed region that excludes the city of Qamishli.&#8211; NNN-ANADOLU  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Nov 2 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkish and Russian troops launched their first joint patrol in northeastern Syria, as reconnaissance of the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the region, as part of a deal that halted a Turkish offensive in the area. &#8220;First Turkish-Russian joint patrols with the ground and air units are underway, east of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,286,198,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}